Comments

Comment by phaydre

This is a rare reward from the valentines day quests. Individual items that gave the petal affect were also given, but expired after a few days. This is the only long lasting petal effect item in the game.

Comment by fizzgiggly

Actually this is a drop that occurs during the Valentine's Day event. It drops from the Archivist in Strat Live, one of the 6 mini-bosses in Scholo, Illyanna Ravenoak in Dire Maul, and from the Princess in BRD. It's a permanent version of the Handful of Rose Petals that are given by the guards.

Comment by Merylyan

You can easily duo Illyanna Ravenoak at level 70.She drops the bouquet at every kill, and at level 70 you don't aggro any mobs, except an occasional invisible Eldreth Spectre, but they're even soloable.

Comment by Guillotine

As a stealther (druid for me), you can stealth up to Archivist in SS. I'm 68 and it was quite easy. You just have to be *very* careful of the ghouls that see through stealth.

Comment by rrcp1us

tududududu...I'm lovin it!

Comment by psychosam666

There are posts that it still drops off the same bosses this year on thottbot.http://thottbot.com/i22206I was worried they'd change the bosses much like the Winter Hats!

Comment by TheMatador

Confirmed, still drops from Archivist Galford, 100%.

Comment by Vincint

Galford, priest (and soon to be flowergirl :) ) and warrior, Galford down, and there be the flowers of said priest's desire :)

Comment by entropicdragon

Comment by soliduck

I think that Blizzard recently changed the maximum size that these petals can be. A few months ago I used this on Tidewalker and it resulted in GARGANTUAN petals, around the size of the AOE of Blizzard or Rain of Fire. Unfortunately, I didn't take a screenshot and now they are much smaller.

If someone else has a screenshot of similarly sized petals, I would really like to know.

Comment by ShamanKalii

The Ultimate Banker's Collection:

Rules: No level requirement higher than level 5 may be used, as most banker toons exist in the range of level 1-5. Items with no requirement at all are preferred. The higher quality item, the better, but quality should never trump style. Style is greater than all. Cost should be as high as possible, to show the influence of your Banker and ability to procure and sell items. But again, style trumps cost. Points for any class being able to equip the item. More points for improving your style as only your class can and no other, as this shows more prestige and elitism. Further points awarded for using as many item slots as possible on your toon.

The choice of the Tux Shirt or Formal Shirt is based on style, I prefer Formal myself. Looks better on female toons. The choices of The Rock or Tarnished Silver Ring hinges on whether you prefer to show off the money you throw around or the time you throw around. Frayed Gloves, Belt, and Shoes are throw-away items, place holding. They look good with the outfit, but don't add anything to your prestige. Skinning Knife is chosen because it's totally unbreakable! Which is key for a Bank Toon, who should never waste money on important things, only on useless things. That and because it has way more class than the other Unbreakable weapon, the Blacksmith Hammer.

The Off-Hand choices are mostly up to style. I prefer the option of the single red rose, however the black options have potential for some, especcially for Undead toons. The Bouquet of Black Roses is even more prestigous however, due to the hefty increase in cost. However, the Bouquet of Red Roses is clearly the king of prestige items, due to the fact it can be used at any level and it has a proc, but only obtained in high level instances. Making it impossible for the level 1-5 bank alt to procure losing it points. However, if you want to level your bank to 40 it is an option...

Suggestions on improving the list are welcomed and encouraged. Banker Toons of the World... UNITE!

Comment by 2OfDiamonds

nice idea, but this drops from bosses in ±lvl 60 instances, which means you can not get this at the level you are hoping for.

they are lvl 50+ at least.

Comment by Golite

No - it isn't possible to enter any of the instances, in which this drops, as a level 1-5.Depending on your definition of low level (I'd guess you meant someone in that range as you mentioned dinging from discovery bonus), your information is wrong.

Comment by 2OfDiamonds

Ssateneth, when is the last time you saw a ghost in an instance?

And, you really can not enter these instances at this level, they fixed this a couple of months after dire maul was implemented because people were using lowbie characters to reset the instance, to farm for http://www.wowhead.com/?item=18401 , i know this, because it was a guildie of mine at the time that found out the exploit, and he got permanently banned for it (yes permanently, no they do not delete your characters, you just cant use the account anymore).

No, i did not know he was doing this, i just found it odd he was never online all of a sudden, he still plays now, but ive never asked him how it worked, it doesnt work anymore and im sure he thinks it was a silly thing to do in hindsight, but he did get his book ;)

Comment by acfroggy

I'm gonna save everyone some time. Just went and solo'd the Archivist and he DIDN'T drop the bouquet. They might have changed where you get the red ones from with Wrath.

Comment by zhadum

You do realize that the event does not start until the 11th, right?

Comment by acfroggy

Oceanic server ftw?

Comment by kalerender

Aye, I'm on an Oceanic server, just went and did Illyana who should (according to the last two years commentary) drop the red roses, no luck unfortunately.

Comment by CausticSaint

Blizzard, way to figure out time zones....

If we can get all the other quests and items now that the event has begun, why are the drops either messed up or tied to US time zones?

(Oceanic, Saurfang server)

Comment by kalerender

The drops have nothing to do with time zones. I couldn't get red roses to drop from Illyana, but so far our group has gone 3/3 for black roses from Maiden.

Comment by Lunalia

Comment by Returner99

Just ran through Stratholme an hour ago; it did NOT drop from Archivist. They might have changed the drop locations, or perhaps removed them entirely. The reason for this Bouquet to be a criteria then, would be that some people had already got it from the previous years

Comment by Blutelf

It is likely that, much like with the Christmas hats, they only drop in classic instances for players not higher than level 60.

Comment by Arlo13

Is it a group loot or you have to roll on it ?

Comment by Zebeyo

Just like with the christmas outfit hats that initially dropped in old instances, then TBC, and now Northrend instances, these have probably been moved to the instances in northrend now. It just seems they skipped the TBC stage cause apparently there is no valentine's day in outlands.

I have as of now no proof of this but i expect we will see recorded drops from several northrend instances the next few days

Comment by dustdog

Just killed Polkelt, no drop ><

Comment by zutroy

Just killed Galford, and no drop.

Comment by Sarduakan

The first boss in Utgarde Keep drops Bouquet of Ebon Roses (normal and heroic). This will count towards your achievement. It would appear that the old bosses no longer drop the Bouquet of Red Roses. (The Bouquet of Ebon Roses also drops from other instances in Northrend, but as far as I know this is the easiest way to get the achievement.)

Comment by Samfisher

I have not killed anything and surprisingly, nothing dropped! Must be a bug.

Comment by TheRebel444

1% droprate, gg blizz. 5 days for this and its a compulsory achievement for the purple proto drake. gfg. very disappointed.

Comment by Nigeldruid

Just did Loremaster, no drop.

Comment by kosajk

take into consideration that those kills are from whole year and bukete drops only at 1 week when love is in the air :)

Comment by Morgades

Drops from Maiden of whatever (boss in Halls of Stone). At least in heroic mode it does.

Comment by dirtyboy

Wrath of the Lich King: My Love is like a Red, Red Rose achievement

This bouquet drops from the following bosses in Northrend. It won't drop from Strat, Scholo etc. for WotLK players.

Comment by Mousa

The reason the drop chances are 1% or even 0,1% here, is simply because those drops are droping only during the event! The drop chance might even be 90% or 100%,,but the kills outside of the event period, affects the drop % of that loot too!Same thing applies for so many other things too, for example the JC dailies: the quest items in wowhead lists have drop chances so close to zero when its rly easy to get them! The reason is that so many ppl who are killing these mobs, simply dont have the quest so they can see the loot!

Comment by Varlarion

Soloed Illyanna Ravenoak 3 times in a row to be sure, NO drop.

Comment by Varlarion

Soloed Illyanna Ravenoak 3 times in a row to be sure. NO drop.

Comment by Thorodrad

it did NOT drop off Illyanna Ravenoak today.I'll go for another run see if it drops this time

Comment by JTN83

Confirmed, no drop first time.

I'm running her, and reporting back.

3 kills, still no flower.

Interesting theory about having WOTLK installed or not.

Comment by Shiverlynn

Did not drop from Archivist Galford.

Comment by Renata

It's probably like it was for the winter hats: if you have WOTLK installed, it will only drop off the Northrend bosses.

Comment by iceeagle

Did a stratholme run today with my 80 warr and it did not drop

Comment by MasterLoco

I just killed the guy and didn't get anything... not a 100% drop.

Comment by Alensia

Dropped 2 times out of 2 from Prince Keleseth in NORMAL UK (soloable/duoable @ lvl 80). Guess this is the easiest way to get it.

Comment by Remea

Sadly confirmed. No easy Bouquet this year. =\

Comment by zenocide

simply u cant get it from pretbc instance if u >lvl70. i think it's to make it a little more challenging.

low levels can get it there. high levels just make a 3man group. go normal UK. kill boss. go out reset and so on

Comment by spleenseer

Just killed Polkelt. Didn't drop. It would make sense that it is no longer obtainable for higher level characters now that the Ebon bouquet has been added, but then the question becomes if it is no longer possible for a high-level to obtain Red? If it can still drop for lower level characters, has anyone tried one of the bosses that drop red while grouped with a lower level?

Comment by Zeila

Comment by Rygaux

ebon drops off her

Comment by Esathegangsta

They don't drop form the old instances anymore. Red and Ebon drops off Prince in UK (first boss). Ebon is the more common. You can either go Heroic or farm on normal. It also drops off Maiden of Grief in HoS. There is one more boss that drop it that I cna't name right now.

Comment by Trileya

Killed Archivist 2x this morning, no bouquet either time. Definitely not 100% as of 2009.

Comment by Servian

Killed Archivist Galford in strat 4 times and no bouquet.

Comment by sky972

6 run in stratholme but there isn't a drop...... i hate blizzard team

Comment by noob4ewer

god... just learn the system of this game before blaming blizzard... those bosses who are said to drop this item are all end-game dungeon bosses of CLASSIC wow as u see... now that we are in WOTLK, they MUST drop the item in at least one of the WOTLK dungeons if u have it installed...

Comment by ausry

Comment by FeyrKnight

Just killed Archivist, and no drop.This probably moved to some Northrend instance boss, or at least to an Outland instance boss.

Comment by Frehk

Exactly. People have classic WoW then it probably will drop for you since Sholo and Brd and Strat are still your end game dungeons I think but if you have Lich King give it up and go to the dungeons for Lich King. If the achievement was that easy it wouldnt be an achievement...

Comment by Mourning

Im not sure if anyone have tried this out, but how about "boosting" a low lvl char, say a lvl 58 in a Pre tbc dungeon, the roses should drop then, and the high lvl could perhaps loot it then.

Comment by Wratherax

Same. No drop.

Comment by Aurakrys

Interesting idea there, I'll try this in a bit and post results.

Comment by kaytie

Apparently it also depends on whether they have the xpac installed, so you'd need a ~58 char without TBC/Wrath to really test it.

Comment by Celia

Just like the winter hats, you can't be above level 60 when you zone in or the bosses won't have them.

I'm not sure if a 60 or lower could create the instance then invite higher levels after to zone in for the bouquet.

EDIT: just ran strath as a 58, zoned in first, then invited an 80. No bouquet.

Comment by Thakor

You do know that the ebon bouquet counts for the same achievement, right?

Comment by PurplePirate

I have the red on my druid and had them before TBC, I tried it not long ago and it counts towards the Fist Full of Love Achievement... while the black one does not count. I have tried both.

Comment by Haxan

The roses have 100% drop chance in some of the northrend instances. Got Bouquet of Ebon Roses from maiden in Halls of Stone (normal mode).

Comment by veXor

just killed galford and got no bouquet

Comment by Davidius

Confirmed, not dropping from the old world bosses. I killed Illyanna Ravenoak 5 times and Archivist Galford once with nothing. Either it is a level thing or a chance drop but I've given up on solo farming it.

"The Bouquet of Red Roses no longer drops in the game; the Bouquet of Ebon Roses will also count for the achievement."

Comment by Oasis

Does anyone know where the red flowers actually drop though, been hearing only that the ebon flowers are dropping from WOTLK dungeons, or were the red flowers taken out and for low level characters?

Comment by Granet

It's 0% as of 2009. Read preceding posts.

Comment by Ghettogreen

You sure do like exclamation marks, don't you?

Comment by TristanPEJ

no longer drops, you gotta get the ebon one from Northrend instances

Comment by Tarinae

Thats a false statement in regards to the Christmas hats. Previously they dropped in old world content but as of 2008 BOTH RED AND GREEN hats dropped from select dungeons in Northrend including the Nexus and the Oculus I believe.

Furthermore, why would Blizzard punish someone for being too high? That is the whole point to the game is to level, right?

Comment by Korvinus

It's not a 'punishment' - it's so level 80's can't go in and solo-farm for the items (like all 80's who could went and tried)

Comment by RblDiver

No, Bliz has informed us that the Bouquet of Red Roses no longer drops. They may take into consideration for the future to let it drop again, but presently, it won't drop for anyone, and they won't re-add it by the end of this year's festival.

Comment by viskan

WHY the %^&* are you downrating those posts?

They clearly state that the bosses have no 100% chance to drop the boquet.I've tried it and I've looted no boquet.

Comment by Bootrick

Down rating the posts because they are misleading. Yes it's not a 100% drop rate in fact as of 2009 it's a ZERO percent drop rate.

Comment by TheDayOfDoom

I don't know why blizzard would remove it from dropping, as it's still a part of the achievement, it could be that the black ones drop one year and the red ones will drop the next, this may be what they are thinking but I'm NOT saying that they will... I was really hoping to get the red ones this year, but i got my black ones anyways.

Comment by SilverHeimdall

I farmed it last year as a lv 70, solo. (:

Comment by kaytie

Try reading 90% of the comments you just skipped past...

Comment by Christor

According to an official blue post on the US forums:

Bouquet of Red Roses not dropping anymoreThe Bouquet of Red Roses no longer drops in the game; the Bouquet of Ebon Roses will also count for the achievement. The reason why the red roses are on the achievement is to allow those who have gotten a dungeon drop bouquet in past years to get said achievement.

Comment by Christor

According to an official blue post on the US forums:

Bouquet of Red Roses not dropping anymoreThe Bouquet of Red Roses no longer drops in the game; the Bouquet of Ebon Roses will also count for the achievement. The reason why the red roses are on the achievement is to allow those who have gotten a dungeon drop bouquet in past years to get said achievement.

Comment by Finex

These actually drops from UK normal & heroic :).

UK = Utgarde Keep

That's what i have heard on live servers.

(vote plus so this comment reach to the top aka letting people know)

Comment by helpinghelper

This flowers now drops from The first boss in Utgarde keep/Northrend bot on normal and heroic mod easy to kill and you can farm it as many times you want like the nexus with the winter hat :)

Comment by Contay

The people who are being "Misleading" are posters from a year ago. A year ago, these DID drop from the old bosses, just not this year. It would at least be nice to see how things were in yesteryear concerning some items, or for reference for discussions.

Think a little more 4th dimensionally. ;)

Comment by DruchiiChan

It doesn't drop off of the Priestess of Thaurassin, it drops of of Princess Moira Bronzebeard.

Comment by Sylari

The really unfortunate part though is that the ebon roses don't count for the sake of the acheivements involving the use of red roses =/

Comment by BytemeShato

well that's how the bronze dragonflight would look at it, right?

Comment by BytemeShato

Just like the Hats, they drop in higher level instances also... this gives players who cannot run the higher level instances a chance to get the item. It's not in any way of punishment, it's a way to get people to work together to get what they want.

Comment by delrodo

Comment by asciident

This item DOES still exist in the game. We've gotten it twice in a row off Prince Keleseth in UK tonight.

edit: it seems it's been hotfixed back into the game as of today or tonight.

Comment by Bobblybook

I can confirm this drops in UK normal. Both the Ebon and Red roses seem to have a similar droprate, although we had a lot more ebon drop. People who had the ebon roses already could still roll on the red ones since they're different items.

Comment by EvilSmoo

Comment by delrodo

Comment by zanethda

These seem to have been re-added to the drop tables. Just got saw one drop from Prince Taldaram in heroic Old Kingdom.

Comment by Syncness

Can this still be used for "Handful of Rose Petal" achievements?

Comment by joequincy

Considering that I just had this drop off Prince Keleseth (first boss in Utgarde Keep), I'd say it still drops in the game. Either the Blue was misinformed, or this has since changed.

Before you ask, yes this was the one. It stood out because 2/4 people in our group already had the Ebon roses (unique, so you can't roll on further drops) but everyone was able to roll on the Red ones.

Comment by sydeshow

Dropped on the 4th kill of Prince Keleseth for us as well tonight.

Comment by joequincy

There is a 100% chance that roses will drop off the bosses noted on the Ebon Roses' drop table (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44731). These roses could be Ebon roses or Red roses... but are FAR more often Ebon roses.

This may have changed since the Blue posts that people have been citing, but more likely the posts were just misinformed, since this has been dropping since day 1 of the holiday (one of my guildies got it that morning).

Edit: It appears the bosses are not yet shown in a drop table, but rather in one of the first comments. My mistake.

Comment by Cheldia

Confirmed on the Red Roses still being in the game. Just got mine from UK after the rest of my group won rolls on ebon ones. Also to note the red rose use effect does count toward the Fistful of petals achievement.

Comment by askuras

It might be like all the other item drops on holidays IE. (Winter hats).

Meaning you can only get the drop from the surrent expansion you have

Example

Orignal wow and BC = Dire maul / Scholo / Strat / BRD

WOTLK = HOS / UK / Old Kingdom

so since most of us have WOTLK only a selecet few can get it from the pre BC dungeons

Ps someone in my Flist just got the red ones from UK he also had the ebons ones from earlier and hes a DK so its not form last year

Comment by Vixen832

I also just had this drop about 5 minutes ago in normal UK.

Comment by janiv

We had it drop tonight off of Prince Keleseth in UK tonight on Heroic. So it must still be in the game. We were surprised to see it.

Comment by cristawillow

confirmed........dropped for my group 4outta 7runs (ebon dropped the other 3)

Comment by MaximCC

In terms of the Northrend Instances, bosses that usually drop Bouquets of EBON Roses on normal drop Bouqets of RED Roses on Heroic.

Tested this with Maiden of Grief & 1st Boss in Heroic Utegard Keep (can't recall the name at the moment), but would assume it holds true for the 3rd northrend bouquet dropper also.

Good Hunting!

Comment by clavarnway

Just had a Bouquet of Red Roses drop off Prince Keleseth in Utgarde Keep.

Comment by rikapi

Prince Keleseth in normal dropped 5 Ebon bouquets when we farmed him last night (2/11).When we did a normal run for alts today (2/12), he dropped a Red bouquet, and all of us were surprised by this.

Can it be that the bosses in question drops Ebon on odd days and Red on even days?

Comment by HinataArygos

Part of the Hot Fix on the morning of 2/12 was adding the this item onto the loot tables of all the mobs that drop the Ebon Rose Bouquet.

Comment by mysticwarriormj

For those who don't know, This item has the same effect as handful of rose petals and can be used for any of the achivements that require them (such as fistful of love).

Comment by Davaeorn

This Bouquet just dropped for me when I stealthrunned Utgarde Keep with my cousin. Kinda weird for an item that is not supposed to drop anymore...

Comment by JTN83

Got a bouquet of red roses off Prince Keleseth, seems to have a low droprate.

Comment by imranmaq

The Bouquet of Red Roses do drop, just got it from Prince Keleseth, and it didnt just drop once got two drops of it, strange blizzard say they don't drop anymore.

Comment by Vilianda

Bouquet of Red Roses droped today in UK from the first boss. So I guess he drops both.

Comment by Liagalanodel

News - I just got a Bouquet of Red Roses on normal UK. Did it a 1st time w/ some guildies and one of them got the Ebon one. We left the instance and reseted (I was the only one without a bouquet) and killed the boss ... and it dropped.Server: US Dentarg / Alliance

Comment by Future6602

I just got Bouquet of Red Roses drop from the first boss in UK

Me and a Hunter from guild 2manned it on normal difficulty - Hunter got Ebon, I got Red.

Comment by Liri

Comment by Abrin

This item is indeed dropping in-game again(seems only to be from UK so far). Either it was hotfixed, drops on certain days or merely has a MUCH lower drop rate.

Comment by Arovei

The Bouquet of Red Roses still drops, I just got mine. The drop has been changed to Prince Keleseth in Utgarde Keep.

Comment by halfstack

Wish this was totally true, but it's not. Last night in my UK farm group we had ebon roses drop for everyone in the entire group. Last run was red roses. Since i didn't get any yet they were automatically given to me. So yes they still do drop! As i got mine in the wee hours on 2/13/09.

Comment by apinchofhope

no, I ran it five times on normal and he dropped 5 ebon bouquets.

Comment by liqker

Had this drop off of Prince Taldaram in Heroic Ahn'kahet this morning. It was the red one, not the ebon one.

Comment by psychosam666

I just had the Bouquet of RED roses drop off Maiden in HoS (Heroic) !

Unforunately, I was on my toon that already had the red ones from last year! :( Cry!My druid has the ebon ones but they look like ugly hunks of coal...

Edit:: A druid friend and I (on my druid) went in and farmed the Red roses from the first boss in normal UK. First try Red, second Ebon, third Red! :) Only 3 tries and we were outa there. Quite happy farmers.

Comment by caelestiss

This is Raeldon of Bleeding Hollow, and i can confirm that this dropped off the first boss of UK heroic for me today, Feb 13 2009, despite rumours of it being taken out completely.

Comment by missionman

So esentialy, the only way to get this achievement done is wait for the Ebon bouquet flower thingy to drop from the Gifts of adorations?

Comment by Tarinae

Could you link the resource please. There are now multiple confirmations of the red roses dropping from Keleseth in UK both on this forum and on my server!

Comment by instar

Just ran it twice. First run, red bouquet, second run was ebon. So it's purely random.

Comment by Sixbones

Dropped from Prince Taldaram in normal Oldkingdoms,

*edit* typo

Comment by bigmike

These just dropped for me today off the first boss from UK.

Comment by thenewdays

this just dropped, Utguard Keep, normal. So I would say its still available, probably not from the lower level instances.

Comment by thenewdays

NOT TRUE. The Bouquet of Red Rosed just dropped in Utguard Keep, Normal. Probably not available in the lower level instances.

Comment by Derrickvidal

Was running Normal UK today with my guild to make sure everyone got the Ebon Roses, and around are 7-8th run the Red roses dropped to our surprise!

Comment by vexis58

Wrong. Just ran UK normal two-man with a friend for the achievement, both times the red roses dropped. It seems to be completely random.

Comment by Aenonar

Did 4 runs in UK and first two dropped ebon roses, and the last two dropped red roses, they definitely drop despite what that GM said. Did 3 runs a couple of days ago where all we got were ebon roses.

Comment by monkeybuttorama

This is NOT a drop that can no longer be acquired, I just did heroic halls of stone (9:30 AM Garona realm Feb. 14), and these dropped from the maiden boss. I was able to roll and I already have the ebon roses. It may simply be that because it *used* to be the ones they use, they nerfed the drop rate of the red version significantly.

Comment by Jushak

I can second this: Duo-ed 1st boss of UK and to my delight red bouquet dropped, despite several sources claiming they are no longer available.

Comment by TalkingShotgun

I've seen two Red Roses drop in UK as well.

Comment by Meri

Indeed they do drop again:Kisirani posted the following on us boards:

I'll pop in to confirm that we did hotfix in a chance for the Red Roses to drop off the same bosses who are dropping the Ebon Roses.

Enjoy your bouquets!

Comment by missionman

Yep, Bouquet droped for me in Heroic Hall of Stones last night, can't seem to remember from which boss tho!

Comment by Limbero

This is wrong, I got this item today from Prince Keleseth (The first boss in Utgarde Keep) on normal mode.

Comment by Repaxan

Three-man farmed normal UK today for the achievement and all three runs, this dropped, much to the chagrin of our boomkin who wanted the Ebon roses.

Comment by hectorhamsta

He also has a smaller chance to drop the red one as well. The red one dropped off of maiden for my group and I could roll for it although I already had the ebon one, but I still passed it up for the people without the achievement. =)

Comment by QueenG

Again, this must be wrong, because I got a bouquette of red roses off the prince in Utgarde Keep today too.

Comment by Wakleon

Yes, I agree. It seems like you can get either the red or ebon roses from the Northrend bosses on normal or heroic. I got my red roses from AK Heroic. I have seen both the ebon and red roses drop and my guess is it is around a 50/50 drop rate for both bouquets. I don't know about the old world bosses, what they drop or how you can get it to drop. But my best guess is it is determined by what expansion you have installed on your account. If you have WotLK you MUST go the Northrend, which isn't a problem because anyone entering Northrend can clear UK on normal. And if you don't have WotLK you need to go to Old World. Again, I can't prove this. If anyone can it might be nice to know, but I doubt there are many serious players going after achievements that don't yet have WotLK.

Comment by sietelle

confirmed, bouquet of red roses STILL drops as of Love is in the Air 09. It drops in UK, HoS, and Old Kingdom (Ahn'Kahet)

Comment by f1nn1gan

Just did BRD and the Princess did not drop any flowers. What a disappointment. So much work and no reward.

Comment by Ilaeria

Confirmed, I saw this drop off the Prince in normal Utgarde Keep. A few days ago I ran it 5 times and only saw Ebon. Today I ran it 3 times and saw 1 Red and 2 Ebon.

Comment by jmbs

Yep, Prince K gave me red roses for Valentine's Day as well. What a sweetie! It was too bad our date ended poorly... for him.

Comment by wowisl33t

So strange... just like the x-mas events i got a Red Winter Hat off a lvl 1 Kobold Miner i think it was nerfed lol and i wasted all that time in Ahn'Kahet for nothing lol

But thanks for notifying that it no longer drops from the EXTREMELY EASY BOSSES THAT ARE EASILY SOLOED! and yeah

Comment by Helenay

But... where can you get the bouquets this year?

Comment by Joim

Just dropped for me on the first boss on Utgarde Keep. Might be normal drop on several WotLK bosses, as happened with Winter Veil Hats.

Comment by Mofa

dropped for me off Maiden of grief in Halls of Stone. Unfortunately i didn't win the roll.

Comment by Swarfega

Just had one drop off the second boss in Old Kingdom.

Comment by Soreleyn

Had it dropped in UP heroic today (can't remember which boss though).

I then grouped up with three others to try Utgarde Keep. It dropped there four times after each other in normal mode. Everyone got their bouquet, everyone was happy (:

Comment by Noise

This is one of those items that inspires people to queue for a random dungeon, roll need first chance they get and leave when they get the loot. I wish Blizzard made this type of loot drop at the end of a dungeon. /sigh

Comment by sawier

Comment by Fantastik

Yes. I just tried it and it worked.

Comment by Fantastik

Just got the Bouquet of Red Roses from the Maiden in HoS. Using them works for Fistful of Love Achievement.(Feb 2010)

Comment by Mofa

seems like it's a 100% drop off the prince in UK. anyone can grind it in normal mode. soloable with some classes. you can reset the dungeon and the whole group (5 players) can get it in max 30 minutes.

Comment by Beleren

Actually its rly easy to get (if u have lvl 80 char ofc). Ive just done it as mage (fighting boss in arcane, trash in frost)

Comment by Frehk

Was it 100% drop for the Bouquet of Red Roses or the Ebon Roses? I have been in UK and Heroic Uk everyday around 5-6 times, this year 2010, since the festival began and it was 100% drop of the Ebon Roses...

Seems some people can not agree on Wowhead, according to the previous posts, as to the actual drop of the Red Roses or if they were, in fact, removed from the game. Would really appreciate it if someone would confirm or deny the drop for Bouquet of Red Roses in any instance this year and not be confused with the Ebon Roses dropping.

Comment by Frehk

Mofa, was it 100% drop for the Bouquet of Red Roses or the Ebon Roses? I have been in UK and Heroic Uk everyday around 5-6 times, this year 2010, since the festival began and it was 100% drop of the Ebon Roses...

Seems some people can not agree on Wowhead, according to the previous posts, as to the actual drop of the Red Roses or if they were, in fact, removed from the game. Would really appreciate it if someone would confirm or deny the drop for Bouquet of Red Roses in any instance this year and not be confused with the Ebon Roses dropping.

Comment by Tomo

Confirmed drop in UK by Prince Keleseth on Normal mode (6 in a row now '-.-).Easily soloable by a SV Hunter.

Comment by reprobaDeus

The only reason it says the drop rate is so low is because this item only drops during it's holiday. The actual drop rate is a lot higher when it's available, my guess would be 20-40%, can someone post a more accurate estimate please?

Comment by Onijitsu

I got the Bouquet of Red Roses yesterday, two-manning Utgarde Keep with my Pally wife (I'm a Warlock) to kill Kelseth. (I just couldn't get the RNG to be nice to me, in the bazillion runs I'd made in dungeons where the flower bouquets drop!)

So? I got the achievement. Looked at the roses in my inventory... WTF do I do with these? Well, the item description says, "Use: Shower a nearby target with a cascade of rose petals! (5 Min Cooldown)"

Okay! *click*

...

...

Nothing! *shrug* Queue up for LFG.

I'd gotten through three dungeon runs before I looked and found out I'd been running them with roses in my off-hand. (I'd thought my DPS had dropped a bit!) Duh... they're an off-hand item.

I am a Warlock, and put up a modified Felguard/Siphon-Life build, in order to give Prince Kelseth three hard-hitting sources of damage to worry about. I used glyphs of Siphon Life, Soul Link and Felguard, in order to maximize my survivability, and possibly have Kelseth give more attention to my Felguard.

Took three tries, but after we figured out our technique, it was easy. Instead of Shadow Bolting Kelseth down to 25%, I used Drain Life. When Kelseth froze either of us, we'd pop Insignia of the Horde. When the adds ran into the room, I used Seed of Corruption to great effect.

A 30-minute solution to a one-week dilemma!

Comment by Onijitsu

Warlock / Pally solution:I was using the Dungeon Finder to only put myself into instances (Norm & Heroic), where the Bouquet of Red Roses and Bouquet of Ebon Roses drop, in order to get the My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose achievement. However, the RNG just wasn't being nice to me... after twenty or so runs, I got really frustrated with everyone else wining the "Need" rolls...

I am a Warlock, and put up a modified Felguard/Siphon-Life build, in order to give Prince Kelseth three hard-hitting sources of damage to worry about. I used glyphs of Siphon Life, Soul Link and Felguard, in order to maximize my survivability, and possibly have Kelseth give more attention to my Felguard.

Took three tries, but after we figured out our technique, it was easy. Instead of Shadow Bolting Kelseth down to 25%, I used Drain Life. When Kelseth froze either of us, we'd pop Insignia of the Horde. When the adds ran into the room, I used Seed of Corruption to great effect.

Comment by ChilpeUrmas

Comment by Brush24

It's actually for the seasonal "Love is in the Air" event, not the Lunar Festival.

Comment by Neverlone

I just soloed this as a level 85 Prot Paladin. Ran past the first few mobs, gathered all of the forge area at once, aoe'd them down and ran between the rest of the mobs up to the prince. Got the Red Roses on my first try.

Comment by kronz

Just dropped for me in Halls of Stone normal mode off Maiden of Grief. First two kills dropped the ebon version, and 3rd kill dropped the red one. I can also confirm that this item still works for Fistful of Love.

Comment by Talvias

Keleseth is easily soloable by any 85 class, just did this as a frost mage.

Comment by slinx007

I had Bouquet of Ebon Roses drop off very first boss of Utgarde Keep, in Howling Fjord. Normal mode.

Comment by Diemele

Confirmed that Keleseth drops this bouquet, too. Got it on the 3rd reset (first 2 were Ebon Bouquet).

Comment by spyrul23

Comment by GAYTIGGER79

As of Patch 4.0.6 it still drops off the Northrend Mobs. Hope this helps those who are trying to figure out if any of the Cataclysm bosses drop it. They don't.

Comment by Cakekun

To clarify, are you saying "any Northrend mob"?

Comment by Woims

Confirmed that Prince Keleseth in UK still drops this. I did it today at 85 on Regular and it dropped. (Fed. 2011: Post Patch)

Comment by ragingjedi

Went in killed the prince 5 times in a row, no drop. - NOT 100%.

Comment by WileyC

They do, in fact, drop off of Cataclysm bosses in normal and heroic instances. Saw these roses drop twice just today.

Comment by Sernethius

Aye, they have moved these to Cataclysm bosses.

Comment by Basmothel

Feb 9 2011 hotfix:

Bouquet of Ebon Roses and Bouquet of Red Roses (Love Is in the Air) now properly drop from Cataclysm dungeons.

Comment by Philthee

Killed the first boss in Utgarde Keep,no bouquet.Went over to Halls of Stone and killed the Maiden 3 times,no drop. Frustrating.

Comment by Esidra

I can confirm it drops from Drahga Shadowburner in normal Grim Batol.

Comment by daerelas

I read that, too. There are (at least) two ways of interpreting that statement. Either it was bugged and the fixed it, or they intended it to drop ONLY from Cata bosses and now it does. Unfortunately it's beginning to look like the latter even though to me that statement reads more towards the former. Wish they'd have been clearer up front to prevent much confusion (and wasted time).

Comment by eightysixer

Just had it drop of of Corla in BRC

Comment by Incognito

Confirmed, just had this drop from Corla in BRC as well. People were asking in trade how to get it besides running older content and I filled them in.

Comment by bbzm

Comment by mulrich

Does this no longer drop from Lich King bosses? I killed Prince Keleseth five times, and he didn't drop the roses. I was alone in the dungeon, so all loot was mine.

Comment by cherme

Same here. Went into UK solo for this after reading so many "100% drops" posted (somewhere) and it failed to drop for me. Of course, now that I'm 85 and can solo this it's no longer going to work.

Comment by MEiac

Heroic?

Comment by psychuil

High Priestess Azil dropped this on heroic for me, but i already had this from the prince (pre-patch)

Comment by spookx

Had a friend who got it from King Ymiron in cata before patch 4.0.6, and I just killed king ymiron, no drop however. Did they remove it from wotlk bosses in 4.0.6 ?

Comment by SirCero

After reading up on these roses and the achivement, I was really confused about where they actually dropped, so I submitted a ticket to a GM. As of the 15. february 2011 this is the correct "answer":

"You can get the rose from all the Cataclysm dungeons bosses in normal or heroic mode. You can get them from heroic bosses in Wrath of the lich king instances too."

Hope that clarifies

Comment by Dregodath

FYI if you have a friend going for the roses, you cannot need them and then trade em, found out the hard way.

Comment by emil5555

On heroic the drop rate is higher (as it is normal in my op)

Comment by dreamwithin

Ran Blackrock Caverns (Normal) twice tonight, both times Corla dropped the Bouquet of Red Roses. It is a single item drop, so once per run. I was lucky enough to win my Need roll on the second run. Good luck to everyone!

Comment by Bauvrina

I got the red roses off Drahga Shadowburner (3rd boss) in Grim Batol normal today, the last day of the holiday event for this year!

Comment by Sukmytotem

The "use" on these flowers has been changed. The peddles used to be visible now they're so small you have to zoom in to see them.

Comment by Iriador

CONFIRMED drop this year, in normal Blackrock caverns, for Corla the 2nd boss.

Comment by Darkcloud0

Comment by SoooWhoCares

Blizz could add Asira Dawnslayer and Azshara to the list of persons who can drop this, too.I hope they will do. It would fit and be convenient for the current progress.

Also let me recap the infos:#1: This item only drops in Cata dungeons - not in WotLK dungeons anymore. Patch 4.0.6 removed WotLK bouquet drops.#2 The Bosses that drop this:-Drahga Shadowburner (Grim Batol, 3rd boss, optional boss)-Corla (Blackrock Caverns, 2nd boss, optional boss)-High Priestess Azil (Stonecore, final boss)-Admiral Ripsnarl (Deadmines pre-pre-last boss )-Lord Godfrey (Shadowfang Keep, final boss)#3 This item's effect can be used instead of Handful of Rose Petals for the achievement Fistful of Love and unlike the other item it doesn't need the event to be useable but has a 5min CD.#4 The dropchance seems to be 100% while the event lasts.#5 Winning this and trading with a group member is (1 source tells that) not possible.

Comment by Mynk

I got mine off Corla (Normal) - first run was as LFD, but lost the roll. Second run I solo-ed it, and it also dropped, so it seems to be a 100% chance or a very high chance of dropping. =)

As a 387 SV hunter, it wasn't too difficult. The first boss I used a turtle pet and had to burn through two chains. But couldn't pull enough damage (especially with tenacity pet) to kill her before the zealots evolved. In the end, I ended up using a cat (she really doesn't hit too hard on her own, so no issue with the pet dying), and potting/eating food. It was pretty easy then.

Pretty much just zerged her and ignored the zealots. She went down before they evolved. =)

Comment by Technowitch

Confirmed also that Corla (2nd boss in BRC) drops the roses for the Love is in the Air thing, and for me and my fellow BM Hunter guildmate it was 100% both times (normal mode). We're both around item level 365, so we're not talking epic gear either.

I actually do believe she is solo-able, but honestly it is much easier with a 2nd person helping. As for Corla's dragonkin which, if left in these purple beams long enough will evolve into much larger, tougher critters, what we did was simply slow the evolution of one of them by standing in the way of the right side beam, each taking turns. Meanwhile, we kept our pets on Corla and just poured on the damage until she died. One of her pets did evolve, but by time he showed up, Corla was nearly 2/3 dead. As for her fear attack, we just used Bestial Wrath to break it.

An important note is that as soon as Corla dies, her dragon kin, whether evolved or not, simply go poof. If you're even halfway decently geared at L85, none of them do that much damage.

Comment by Jencat

I just got my Bouquet of Red Roses from Murozond in End Time

Comment by Kharin

Disregard the indication of drops from Northrend dungeons. Ebon and Red Rose Bouquets are now only available in Cataclysm instnaces (since 2011).

There are also reports of the bouquests dropping from such as Queen Azshara in Well of Eternity (second boss), Echo of Sylvanas and/or Murozond in End Time and Asira Dawnslayer (second boss) in Hour of Twilight. It's not clear whether these drops are 100% or more sporadic.

Comment by remborsk1

Solo'd Corla as ilvl390 sub rogue on normal, got the roses first kill.

Keep recuperate up, stand in one of the beams. When the stacks reach close to 80, Cloak of Shadows out of the debuff and stay in the stream. Make sure to keep rupture and SnD up on Corla.

When the one add evolves he will do his big Shadow Strike channeled attack immediately; take it on the nose. When he appears in melee range, use Evasion or Combat Readiness. Switch to the add only to interrupt his Shadow Strike (DBM will warn when he's casting). Keep your dots up and cross your fingers.

Comment by booMcfierce

Any level 90 should easily be able to solo The Stonecore on normal difficulty.

Happy Hunting!

Comment by MyuGaming

2/3/13 Just soloed Stonecore on normal and the last boss, High Priestess Azil dropped the Bouquet of Red Roses on my first try.

Comment by Gemstars

Just dropped first attempt from Echo of Jaina in the End Time, was hoping to get the Sylvanas encounter to try for the Ebon roses but hey this is good too! :D

Comment by vodk1994

Bouquet of Red Roses dropped from High Priestess Azil after one run for me. :D

Comment by Anaral

I was curious if the WotLK instances still dropped the roses so I opened a ticket, here is what I was told:

>>BLIZZ: I read your petition regarding the Bouquet of Ebon Roses and Bouquet of Red Roses. They do drop from the bosses for WotLK and Cata, but not MoP bosses.>>Me: So even if the bosses are grey to us, they'll still drop?>>BLIZZ: There's a chance.

So there you have it. Go kill those normal WotLK and Cata bosses to your heart's content in 2013. Who knows if this will hold true next year. ;)

Comment by Lucilite

Comment by Komornik

In patch 6.0.3, it can still be looted in Stonecore.

Comment by Shin2001

What are the current dungeons that this drops in?

Comment by Scoobydeux

(2015)

The four Cata bosses will drop the Bouquet of Red Roses in normal or heroic. I'm pretty sure the drop rate is 100% during the event. (and, of course, zero when the event is over) I've farmed several in Stonecore, and never had it fail to drop.

The WotLK bosses will drop Bouquets only in heroic. That is true for the classic instances, you have to do them in WotLK Heroic mode, even though the completion achievement is in the classic section. You won't get a bouquet running normal Deadmines.

Five of the seven WotLK bosses will drop either the Bouquet of Red Roses or the Bouquet of Ebon Roses. I believe this is also 100% drop rate of one bouquet during the event. Since only one bouquet drops, either Red or Ebon, the drop rate is split between them. I've only farmed these once, and the Bouquet of Ebon Roses dropped.

In the End Times, two bosses each drop just one of the bouquets; Echo of Jaina drops the Bouquet of Red Roses and Echo of Sylvanis drops the Bouquet of Red Roses. I don't know if both drop or only one.

The Bouquet of Red Roses works all year 'round for the Fistful of Love, with a five minute cooldown between petal showers. It also works for Flirt With Disaster (Horde), and, presumably, Flirt With Disaster (Alliance). The Bouquet of Ebon Roses does not work for either achievement.